The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-30

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Mr.. Depew's office a. President Of tho New
York Central Railroad, is in tho great Forty
second street depot. and his homo Is two
blocks away ut "a East Forty-Hfth street.
Nearly all Of every daytime. except Sundays. is
spent In those two places. and with Mr.. Depew
one day is very like another. For instance. he
always rises at z o'clock, and TX Is at break
fast over bill Of fare he never departs from
unless he is where he cannot get the dishes;
which is an emergency ho is not likely to en-
snse he eats only two Rosd
town: and L begins each day Of lively ling;
the q CATERS Who inc has '
zen after bEsakiast, reaches The deer; Others
mf Ths 81 sps A = b 1i who Want
things 0Ps IL ee sa
hsif dozen other nights; Nj: 3epeWs man
two lower floors Of tho house, putting some in
the front parlor, some IN tho back perlor. and
r: IT, p Ct a' s T H.
shas has thus isr preVonted him from showing v
Aca5S sorne Il asns an
SIS5d d ss5 e public mans house were no not
!, MT: 3eRew e alXsys at his desk in the Grand
the house over. there with him. He is certain
to find from . dozen to forty persons there be-
fore him and anxious for A Interview: These
from abroad With letters Of Introduction. n.
SsRns sSs9: " 1w aS sHpR s rss Eat
sss handled auiotly bet yeen INF M. pePew and
ss Sx. fnse the eoe al day.
O'Clock MI. Depsw takes his luncheon. He is
Il 81 =
and yet the fact is that he seldom finds time
to DO so: The jsnitor Of the depot used to
Sa ehs Is not So onssr
Mr.: Depews meals ere T sent IN from h neigh
to b af
developed into desire for chicken. and 80 he
usually lunches on that.
shown in even while he is ut luncheon. But in
between all these visitors the routine business
Of the Vanderbilt railroad system is carried on.
vice drop in with their reports. or are sent for
that matters may be referred to them. or come
Which they wish to discuss, or with requests
essary. 4 personal mail Of nifty letters u day
Is opened, letter by letter. as opportunity offers,
and tho answers that arc necessary are die
tated to stenoGrapher on the instant.
are certainly ten letters day in his office mail
requesting him to make addresses at crsnr"-
stone layings conventions Of the clergy, Ea ri!
orations or lectures in behalf Of needy churches
81 s daily 81 Is s
spout against the railroads the rest Of tn year;
lizard Is by sas
day with some such remark as kneM there
theEc other IN Re
Thess y : little pillar p wood close to NJ.
illustrates one ofthe master secrets Of his sue
cess. 1t has number Of electric buttons upon
IT,
head. His hand often reaches out to that little
use besapss through them 10 Distributes the
ssa hs.s ss said o be- ws sa as
Nj. DePew is not one OF these. He does not
such marked success as &c does Il he under.
:s9s t. Ssns to and looks He asr
al the rest, with touch on this
Who are to esrry out his orders and must hold
which thoy d. So. Even thus Mr.. Pepew is
SIX days in the week. but il is an orderly. easy,
tEctionless industry, carried on 80 ,fSmpoothiy
around him, to whom work Is wearing. marvel
at his perpetual placidity., They say that he is
never either worried or hurried. that he has
timo Tor whatever turns up or whoever calls.
appointment or rob him Of the hours he sets
IN grand Dspos he
Ii regarded as magician In business.
At about o'clock every dsympnltsss s. he hss
Wake home and sits down oyer the ., evening VI
morning papers also. providing them into the
time when he is Mt breakfast and receiving
callers Dinner is called Ct half past 9,eSlock:
the oldest books. until bed time, with frequent
S6sr BOOKS SeSn 10 tire hm % Or he a
self hard to please. or course evenings thus
spent amid his books are only those, wherein
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which he Is the President for Q second term.
n his
sort Of exercise Or disstpatis9nfL,ths tptellec.
well. Is 50 completely the master Of them: He
moods. as a musician with an instrument
HOW HE BUILDS SPEECH.
For instance, whom Mr.. Depew has q serious
and careful speech to prepare, like that Tor tho
is said he framed only after three weeks OF
reading, he tunes his mind for II. so to speak,
by studying Macaulay. He takes Macauley's
essays and Skins them over. touching this,
dipping into that. glancing, at another. and
finally coming upon one that interests him
the end his pace Is set for his work. his mind IL
on an elevated plane, he Grasps great subjects,
and looks ct things broadly.
But II he had to do all that for AL his I'D:
dres1es. or for tenth part OF them. he would